Equal People, Equal Rights

Throughout history you can see that the Americans have always seemed to think they were better than someone else in one way or another. It started when our ancestors came to America from Europe. Did we not think that the Indians were savages? They were the ones who were not smart enough to rip apart and civilize the land. After that it was the Africans that were not good enough for the white man. We had to enslave them and turn them into possessions to be bought and traded, and thrown out like yesterday’s trash when work was not tolarable. Asians, Jews, Irish, and even the physically and mentally handicapped have all had their share of discrimination. But in our society the laws make it difficult to discriminate. We have determined that gays can not be discriminated against in jobs, housing and the like. But marriage, perhaps understandably, has been placed off limits to them. In the two opposing essays the authors have both given reasons why gays should or should not be given the ri...